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4-H

4-H

http://4-h.org

More than 6 million 4-H youth in urban neighborhoods, suburban schoolyards and rural farming communities stand out among their peers: building revolutionary opportunities and implementing community-wide change at an early age. With 540,000 volunteers, 3,500 professionals, and more than 60 million alumni, the 4-H movement supports young people from elementary school through high school with programs designed to shape future leaders and innovators. Fueled by research-driven programming, 4-H'ers engage in hands-on learning activities in the areas of science, citizenship and healthy living.

  • Jim Kahler,
  • Ed Bender

6kites

http://www.6kites.com/

6kites works with companies of all sizes to transform their businesses through the practical application of social-mobile-web technologies. 6Kites works effectively with people at every level of any organization, providing straight talk, real results and ways to keep things light. It’s this approach that builds trust with clients, delivers the results they expect, and makes it easy for them to do business with 6kites.

ACTE Guidance and Career Development Division

http://www.acteonline.org/guidance.aspx

The mission of ACTE's Guidance and Career Development Division is to provide leadership and advocacy for school counselors, career development personnel and other guidance professionals. ACTE collaboratea with other professional education groups to maintain and advance a strong voice for the full implementation of comprehensive guidance programs and the work of career development personnel. They also disseminate CTE information to school counselors, career development personnel and other guidance professionals and
inform CTE professionals about the goals and outcomes of fully implemented comprehensive guidance programs.

  • Lela (Lee) Kosteck Bunch
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Ada Initiative

http://adainitiative.org/

The Ada Initiative works to increase the participation of women in open technology and culture by educating both women and people of all genders who want to support women in open tech/culture. Its work is free of charge and freely reusable under Creative Commons licenses.

  • Valerie Aurora

Advance IT Minnesota

http://www.advanceitmn.org/

Advance IT Minnesota is a Center of Excellence within the Minnesota State College and Universities (MnSCU) system. The Center’s mission is to engage employers, educators, and learners to develop a more robust IT Workforce in Minnesota. The Center’s vision is to position Minnesota as a top-ten regional economy for information technology careers as measured by total IT-related employment. 

Women are the greatest untapped source of IT talent in Minnesota.  Center leadership recognizes that numerous engagement strategies need to be employed to support high school age young women to choose a technology education and career pathway.   Advance IT Minnesota endeavors to provide MnSCU enrolled students with IT learning and work-ready experiences to meet the needs and demands of technology-based and technology dependent businesses. 

  • Russ Fraenkel
Aetna

Aetna

http://www.aetna.com

Aetna is engaged in making diversity a force for business growth and expanded opportunities. Aetna's diversity strategy focuses on maximizing their contributions, while integrating diversity into how they do business every day. At Aetna, they actively harness the diversity of their employees to gain a better understanding of the communities they serve. This allows them to stay ahead of the curve by reshaping their business to better serve all customers with responsive, tailored health related products and services. Their continued commitment to diversity has delivered positive and wide-reaching benefits to their employees, communities and business partners.

  • Meg McCarthy,
  • Suzanne Ryan

Afterschool Alliance

http://www.afterschoolalliance.org

The Afterschool Alliance works to ensure that all children have access to affordable, quality afterschool programs. 8.4 million children participate in afterschool programs around the nation, but more than 15.1 million children are on their own after school ends. The nation's leading voice for afterschool, we are the only organization dedicated to raising awareness of the importance of afterschool programs and advocating for more afterschool investments. Our STEM work focuses on creating and advancing federal, state, and local opportunities and policies to expand resources and build systems and partnerships that provide students with access to a rich STEM curriculum in their afterschool programs.

 

  • Anita Krishnamurthi,
  • Melissa Ballard
Allstate

Allstate

http://www.allstate.com

Diversity is a strategic business imperative essential to Allstate's success in today's marketplace. They aggressively pursue diversity in their workforce and their workplace, challenging themselves to be appropriately represented by women and people of color in their general employee population, agency owners and within their leadership ranks.

  • Carla Zuniga,
  • Mythyly Putcha
American School Counselor Association (ASCA)

American School Counselor Association (ASCA)

http://www.schoolcounselor.org

The American School Counselor Association guides school counselors in supporting students focus on academic, social and career development so that they are able to accomplish all of their goals in school and are equipped with the proper tools to have rewarding lives. ASCA provides professional development, resources, research and advocacy to over 24,000 professional school counselors. ASCA heads a group of resources called Smart Girl, which are publications geared towards inspiring middle school girls to learn good decision-making skills, raise their self-esteem, and become capable and independent women.

  • Jill Cook
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Andreessen Horowitz

http://a16z.com/

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm that provides seed, venture and growth-stage funding to the best new technology companies. Founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz helps entrepreneurs become successful CEOs and build important and enduring companies. Its general partners are Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, John O'Farrell, Scott Weiss, Jeff Jordan and Peter Levine, all widely recognized experts in the creation, scaling and operation of high growth technology companies. The firm has $2.7 billion under management across three funds. Among its 150 investments are Airbnb, Apptio, Box, Fab, Facebook, Foursquare, Groupon, Jawbone, Lytro, Pinterest, Silver Tail Systems, Twitter and Zynga. The firm was established in June 2009 and is located in Menlo Park, California. 

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